Randolph woman arrested twice in one day at man’s house

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Feb 22, 2011 at 12:01 AMFeb 22, 2011 at 10:12 PM

Tarsh Curry, 41, was arrested twice in Somerset Sunday, once after she allegedly threw rocks through the windows of a man’s house and van and again after she reportedly broke into the man’s home and threatened to stab him with a 9-inch kitchen knife.

John Moss

A Randolph woman was arrested twice Sunday, once after she allegedly threw rocks through the windows of a man’s house and van and again after she reportedly broke into the man’s home and threatened to stab him with a 9-inch kitchen knife.

Tarsh Curry, 41, was first arrested at about 11:15 a.m. when police were called to the man’s house.

Police said a judge denied an emergency restraining order for the man after the first incident. He approved a restraining order after Curry’s second arrest Sunday night.

Somerset police Chief Joseph Ferreira said that Curry was arrested the first time for destruction of property and malicious destruction to a vehicle.

The man told police that Curry had threatened to kill him in the past and that he feared her, Ferreira said.

Curry was released on $40 bail at 2:43 p.m., police said.

The man told police he secured his home and “wedged things under door handles to prevent her from breaking in,” Ferreira said. “At 8:40 p.m., he heard a loud noise in his basement and armed himself with an ax.”

He said he was confronted by Curry in his living room and told her to leave.

“Curry told him that if she was going to jail, he was going, too,” Ferreira said. “At that time, she was holding an approximate 9-inch knife.”

The man ran out of the house and called police.

Police caught up to Curry in her car and had to smash the passenger’s side window because she had locked herself in and wouldn’t come out, Ferreira said.

A large kitchen knife was in glove compartment, he said. As an officer tried to look at the cuts on her face, she spat in his face, Ferreira said.

She refused medical treatment at the police station, he added.

Police returned to the man’s house and found pillows, pillow cases and sheets had been stabbed. A portable heater was stuffed in the toilet.

Curry is charged with armed burglary, assault and battery on a police officer, failing to submit to a police officer, malicious destruction of property, trespassing after notice and resisting arrest.

Curry was scheduled to be arraigned today in Fall River.

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